JUL-AUG 2015 | Critics Page

Its possible that one of the most important things Linda Nochlin has done is to have launched her best-known salvo in the form of a question. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? was not just an indictment (though it was that, and a forceful one). It was also an invitation.

MAR 2013 | Editor's Message

DEC 12-JAN 13 | ArtSeen

It is an odd, bracing time to be writing art criticism. I used to think of the job as starting with a dialogue between writer and artist, an exchange that might widen to engage other interested artists and writers (and, ideally, interested bystanders as well). It has always seemed like an enormous privilege, and also a huge stroke of luck, to participate in this kind of discussion.

NOV 2016 | Critics Page

Among the people I’ve had the very good fortune to know, and want to recognize, are a couple of formidable teachers (Leo Steinberg, Rosalind Krauss); a few artists who early on prodded me by their wisdom and invention (Scott Burton and Siah Armajani); and one editor, who, I’m guessing, I won’t be the only person to thank, profusely: the inimitable and indomitable Betsy Baker.